...tests are increasingly DIY, with smartphones capable of doing assays and Theranos’ inexpensive tests from a few drops of blood using microfluidics technology, available direct to consumer at a drugstore. Imaging devices are again smartphone based–CellScope‘s otoscope, Peek (eye) and GE’s VScan ultrasound (yes, it is still around) lead to less expensive home or retail-based physical exams. And the results would be owned by the patient. The PHR doesn’t go far enough for him–the patient would own their data, all of it, from day one. Medications are also expensive (in the US, the top ten drugs account for $62 bn... Continue Reading
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The smartphone as great healthcare leveler: Eric Topol
...at HealthLeaders’ CFO Exchange conference. A promoter of the ‘creative destruction of medicine’ (the title of his most recent book, WSJ article), he believes that everything from the office visit (virtualized) to lab tests (future add ons will essentially be labs-on-a chip able to analyze tiny blood samples) to ER visits to the tsunami of sensor-generated vital data will be democratized, using the smartphone as its nexus. Yet even he admits that ‘intermediate” technology such as Theranos‘ micro-sample lab analysis units and Better’s nurse-practitioner healthcare guidance (we’ve dubbed ‘concierge medicine for the masses’) on multiple platforms will be in the... Continue Reading
Turning an iPhone into an endoscope
...evaluated the image quality compared to the Storz HD camera standard, and concluded that they were equivalent for flexible ureteroscopy and somewhat inferior, but still acceptable for flexible cystoscopy. Savings? $46,469–$154 compared with $46,623 for the Storz HD. The device is yet to go to human trials. FierceMobileHealthcare. iMedicalApps (abstract) The Endockscope was also commented on by Dr. Eric Topol in his Medscape article on genomic medicine, decision support tools such as IBM Watson possibly replacing doctors, a robot administering anesthesia, the Theranos fast blood testing system possibly disrupting lab testing…Topol on ‘Taboo Genetics,’ a Frugal App, and Magic Supplements... Continue Reading
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